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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: lands, was, not to furnish Sparta with citizens, but purchase
him a tyrant's body-guard.
Agis, nevertheless, little regarding these rumors, procured
Lysander's election as ephor; and then took the first occasion
of proposing through him his Rhetra to the council, the chief
articles of which were these: That every one should be free from
their debts; all the lands to be divided into equal portions,
those that lay betwixt the watercourse near Pellene and Mount
Taygetus, and as far as the cities of Malea and Sellasia, into
four thousand five hundred lots, the remainder into fifteen
thousand; these last to be shared out among those of the country
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